News Burger – Your Weekly Prep Diet - Week #2 (February)

14 February, 2018

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By Chirag Shukla

Aspirant

For MBA aspirants, Current Affairs are one of the most key components for MBA preparation.

In exams such as XAT, IIFT and SNAP, an entire section is dedicated to it in order to test your Current Affairs and General Knowledge. Furthermore, Current Affairs become an interesting topic of discussion in almost all GD-PIs, WATs/AWTs.

Therefore, we have come up with the Weekly News Burger, a curation of weekly Current Affairs which will help aspirants avoid scrambling for Current Affairs content at the end of the year when it is most important for competitive exams.

Airbus Tests Alpha One, A Drone Taxi.
It was developed by Airbus’s Vahana Team and reached a height of 16 feet for a duration of 53 seconds.
Dubai has done something similar before, by launching a two-person seater taxi developed by the German Firm Volocopter.

Kerala Tops The List Of States In Terms of Health Performance, according to Niti Aayog’s Health Index Report.
Uttar Pradesh was the worst performer as compared to other states.
CEO of Niti Aayog Amitabh Kant released the report. The Health Index was developed with assistance from the World Bank.

PM Modi inaugurates construction project for first ever Hindu Stone Temple in Abu Dhabi.
The temple, named Swaminarayan temple of the Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha, will be ready by 2020.

Mumbai is World’s 12th richest city, according to the New World Wealth Report, SA.
28 billionaires live in Mumbai, and it is one the fastest growing cities in the world.
New York topped the list, followed by London in second place, Tokyo in third and San Francisco in fourth.

Maldives Political Turmoil Described In Brief:
President Abdulla Yameen declares a 15-day state of emergency in the Maldives and has Chief Justice, judge of the Maldives Supreme Court and former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom arrested. This comes after the Supreme Court ordered the release of imprisoned opposition lawmakers, stating that their trials had not been fair.
Mohamed Nasheed and Gayoom (both former Presidents of Maldives) have requested India to intervene. India has intervened in the past and sent troops to the Maldives in 1988 to prevent a coup.
Read more about it here.

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